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Sparring With Love
“So the first thing regarding love is
for your life energy not to become destructive.
Destruction is sin when it occurs for its own sake. There is another kind of destruction: a man
tears down a house in order to build a new one.
This is not destroying but a part of constructing. When you break for the sake of breaking, it
becomes a sin.”
“If you have a small child whom you
love very much, you sometimes give him a whack or two – because of your love
you have beaten him for his good, to improve him. You hit him because you care. If you did not care for him you would not
have bothered what he did and what he didn’t do; you would have been
indifferent. But you love him enough not
to allow him to go on doing what he pleases.
You will stop him from going near fire; you will even hit him if he does
not listen. This hitting is not sinful,
but creative. You want to make something
of him.”
“When you hit an opponent, it is the
same hand; the slap is the same, the energy is the same. When the feeling within you is that of
enmity, when you are hitting to destroy and not to create, it becomes a
sin! An act in itself is not a sin. If the feeling within you is positive and
creative, no act is a sin; if the feeling within is destructive, the same act
becomes a sin.” - Osho “The True Name”
pg. 212
Real Martial Artists spar out of love,
they do not fight out of anger. They
spar with one another as brothers to help one another improve and
progress. Like a father who spars with a
son, neither is fighting out of anger or hate, the father is there to help the
son improve.
The Sifu breaks down the disciple in
order to help rebuild the disciple, through time and experience the disciple
will obtain experience and skill. With
this experience and skill comes confidence.
If the disciple becomes arrogant, the Sifu once again will need to break
down the disciple to regain his humbleness.
The Sifu is constantly monitoring the disciple to ensure he is on the
proper path. Out of love, the Sifu whacks
the disciple for his own good. The
disciple gains experience, skill, and humbleness from the experience.
The Sifu will stop the disciple into
going into combat sport or becoming a street bully; he will even beat him if he
does not listen. This hitting is not
sinful, but creative. The Sifu wants to
make something of him. Fighting out of
anger and hatred is sin. Fighting out of
love is positive and creative. – Sifu Freddie Lee
Great post! Martial Artists do everything out of love in my opinion, not hate. Because he is a artist, he/she wishes to create, almost never to destroy.
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ReplyDeleteWow...that really speaks to me. My father whoops me really hard because I left home to go to a friend's house without him knowing. He beats me because he cares, not out of hate.
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